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Li Bai's poetry town

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Walk into the most beautiful ancient town of Qinglian Poetry Town in Jiangyou City

Li Bai's poetry town

Warm sunshine in winter, walking into the Qinglian Poetry Town in Jiangyou City, affected by the global epidemic prevention and control, it is also quiet and quiet, especially suitable for seeking a quiet visit to ancient times. More than 1300 years ago, the great tang dynasty poet Li Bai lived in Qinglian for 24 years, leaving behind many popular poems and precious cultural relics. On January 13, the third batch of "Sichuan's Most Beautiful Ancient Towns and Ancient Villages" list was officially announced, and Qinglian Poetry Town in Jiangyou City was on the list.

Li Bai's poetry town

Pin Li Bai's nostalgia

A person, walking in the streets and towns of Qinglian imitating the Tang style, saw a liquor store open. "Li Bai is a poetry immortal, a wine immortal, a sword immortal, I can't write poetry and dance swords, then drink ha!" Zhao Xuan, a tourist from Mianyang, stood in front of the liquor store and said that he had come to visit Qinglian Poetry Town many times, and the antique architecture here was still very good, and it felt like crossing to the Tang Dynasty and drinking with Li Bai. Walking past the reconstructed antique street pavilion, you will be greeted by the Shaanxi Guild Hall. The 12 stone pillars in the hall are the original buildings of the guild hall. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were materials and merchants from several provinces such as Fujian and Guangxi who traded here, so there were meetings, entertainment, and discussion places such as guild halls. On the stage of the Shaanxi Guild Hall, people often took the stage and recited Li Bai's poems. 

Li Bai's poetry town

  Stroll along the sun-drenched bluestone paved Mingxian Street, lined with quaint houses where residents are basking in the sun and chatting. Wu Guoshan, an old resident, said that the Mingxian Street that survived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was about 1,000 meters long, and although it has gone through old street names such as "Jianshe Street", nearly 150 houses on this street still maintain the Style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Take a deep breath of Li Bai culture in the air, and feel that life has become poetic. The "Mingxian Ancestral Hall" located in qinglianchang town was built in the eighth year of Qing Tongzhi (1869). Pushing the door into the eye are two ancient trees in the large flower bed like a dragon, a ziwei and a luohan pine, guarding Li Baishi's soul. Walking into the courtyard, next to the Mingxian Ancestral Hall covered with small green tiles, all you can see is a tomb of Li Bai's clothes. Every year during the Qingming Festival, people come here to pay tribute to Li Bai, and usually there are tourists who come here to feel the soul of Li Bai.

He Li, a cadre of the party and government office of Qinglian Town, said that Qinglian Town was named Qinglian Township in history because of the left and right embraces of Qingxi and Lianshui, and the great poet Li Bai was born here. Li Bai's character Qinglian resident, Qinglian and Qinglian are homophonous, which is not only a self-narrated history, but also a touch of nostalgia for Li Bai. Today's Qinglian Town has cultural sites and relics such as Taibai Ancestral Hall, Longxi Courtyard, Pink Bamboo Building, Mill Needle Creek, Wash Ink Pond, Tomb of Li Baiguan, Tomb of the Full Moon, and Mingxian Ancestral Hall

Li Bai's poetry town

Rich Li Bai cultural connotation

Walking into the Taibai Stele Forest built on Tianbao Mountain, the pavilions and pavilions seem to have crossed into the Suzhou Garden, where they talk to the poets, feel the breadth and profundity of Li Bai's culture, and have a poetic feeling. The Taibai Stele Forest is divided into "Poetry Boutique Garden", "Qingfeng Mingyue Garden", "Guyuan Landscape Garden", etc., including the first stele, the giant stele, the square pillar stele, the ladder stele, the moon-shaped stele, the poetic stele and so on. It is the most complete place to reflect the culture of Li Bai in the world today.

The invitation platform is located on the edge of Tianbao Mountain, surrounded by flowers, the combination sculpture of Li Bai and the moon with a height of about 5 meters is eye-catching, the landing moon is made of high-quality White Jade, and the portrait of Li Bai uses high-quality natural stone, romantic and beautiful poetry, which perfectly presents Li Bai's writing "A pot of wine between flowers, drinking alone without blind dates." Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and the shadow into three people. "Poetic. When you are tired of shopping, you will go into the tea house to take a break, taste Li Bai's poetry, and listen to the stories of poetry immortals. In the "Mr. Taibai" Cultural and Creative Museum opposite the Mingmu Hall, there are all kinds of books and materials related to Li Bai, as well as cultural and creative works of art.

Lin Li, a tourist from Mianyang, said: "I have loved to read Li Bai's poems since I was a child, and this time I came to Qinglian Poetry Town to play, and I felt closer to Li Bai's poetry, and I was particularly happy and excited. There is a "January Pavilion" on the invitation platform, displaying the calligraphy works of famous artists about Li Bai.

Li Bai's poetry town

There is a Li Bai Cultural Museum under Tianbao Mountain, which uses the lamps, lights, sounds and electricity of modern scientific and technological elements to brilliantly interpret the romantic and wanton life of Li Bai, a poet. On one of the walls of this museum, there is a huge "Li Bai National Travel Map", and the tour guide's explanatory words are quite poetic: "Li Bai's flowing figure and the soul of poetry have now turned into the Qinglian former residence of Qinglian, a green lotus in the middle of summer, and sneaking into the hearts of people who love poetry with the wind..." Romantic Li Bai, who has written poems reflecting real life such as "Sleepwalking in Heaven and Leaving Farewell" and "Walking Difficulty" again and again, spanning thousands of years of time and space, resonating with generations of readers, and making Li Bai's life talent shine with the sun, moon, and stars. In the courtyard hotel with the plaque of "Quiet Night Thought", the young women dressed in plain Tang costumes are so ethereal, they play the guqin, read Li Bai's poems, tourists either quietly appreciate, or silently buy books, making people feel that this time is so poetic, so calm and peaceful.

Li Bai's poetry town

Create a Li Bai cultural business card

Coming to the pink bamboo building, the blue tie-dye fabric door curtains such as The poetic portrait of Li Bai and the freehand of Li Bai's poetry are blown by the breeze, and the pink bamboo leaves in the garden rustle. Embroidery lady Zou Xiaoyan and other embroidered "Yellow Crane Tower" and other Shu embroidered poems, ornaments small screens, exquisite, as if Li Yueyuan returned, the embroidery of Li Bai's poems is so evocative. The Pink Bamboo Building is the "boudoir embroidery building" of Li Bai's sister Li Yueyuan, and it is also a provincial-level cultural security unit. Today's pink bamboo building, under the care of Zhu Yu, the descendant of Shu embroidery, and a group of embroidery girls, is more poetic and elegant. The landscapes of Li Bai's hometown and the frames of Li Bai's poetry paintings make Li Bai's poetic embroidery exude a strong cultural atmosphere. There are also ornaments and packaging bags of Li Baishi wine culture, which organically combine Li Bai culture and fashion elements, showing the rich cultural characteristics of Li Bai.

Li Bai's poetry town

Over the years, in the process of the integrated development of culture and tourism in Qinglian Town, Zhu Yu borrowed the poetry scenes, poetic feelings and poetic rhymes of The Poet Xian Li Bai, integrated the exquisite traditional Shu embroidery technology, and created the Li Bai Cultural Series Shu Embroidery Products with Li Bai's poetic paintings as the theme, which has become another unique business card for Qinglian Town to promote Li Bai culture. Today's Qinglian Libai Poetry Town, relying on the cultural relics of Jiangyou Libai, with the harmonious landscape ecological construction as the forerunner, around the strategic positioning of the "Poetic China Poetry Town", to build a modern cultural leisure town integrating "tourism, worship of poetry immortals, poetry recitation, leisure experience, healthy pension, beautiful countryside", and with its unique harmonious and quiet culture, the transcendent temperament of the breeze and the moon, attracts tourism enthusiasts and Li Bai culture lovers. Come here for sightseeing.

( Tian Mingxia, Zhang Junhua, Wu Yong)

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